Improvement in tools for fitting bottoms to fruit-baskets



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AUSTIN S. PARKS, OF WINCHENDON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Leners Patent No. 103,493, daten May 24., 1ero.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, AUSTIN S. Palms, of Winchendon, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefut Im-4 acertain function in the most perfect and expeditious manner; and

I t consists in the arrangement of a ser-ies of cuttingtools in a slide `attached a rectangular slide-rest, to be secured in a, proper position on a lathe, so that, by the two-motions ofthe fixture, the bottom of a fruitbasket is sized, grooved, under-cut, and cut out complete, to be fitted to a fruit-basket in the' most perfeet manuel'. To an ordinary turning-lathe, having plate chucks for holding the wood prepared for the purpose, the lower piece A, gs. 2 and 3, is attached. On this piece A is fitted a sliding plate, B, which is operated by a hand-lever, O, underneath, to place the proper cutter in position near the Woodv to cut the groove, and then under-cut it to form the lock for the body of the basket.

On thevtop ofthe plate B, at the required angle, is

fitted the sliding to0l-ho1der D, which `has a series of grooves cut in it for securing the cutting-tools a b c, leaving the proper spaces between them, so that the bottom is cut out, the circular groove-cut in the right place, and at the right'depth, and under-cut to form the lock; the cutters a b c being secured in the groves by set-screws, so that they may be easily taken out for sharpening, and replaced and perfectly adjusted. The tool-holder D is provided with an adjustable stop, 1,0m the right side, which comesin contact with a set-screw, e, on the end ofthe piece A.

The motion of the sliding plate B is also regulated. by the set-screws f and g, iig. 3, in lugs h and 'k, on the front side ofthe piece A.

The tool or fixture, as above described and combined with a turningflathe, will t .the bottoms of fruithaskets in the most pefect and expeditious manner, and, when used in connection with the othentools for cutting the bodies of iuit-baskets, facilitates the lmanufacture of the article toa great degree, so that,

by the aid ofthe other machinery, invented by B. D.

Whitney, for puttingA thebaskets together, they can be made so as to defy all competition.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim is- '.lhe lathe-tool or fixture as constructed, and operating substantially in the manneras and for the purposes herein specified.

In testimony whereof I- hereunto subscribe my name- A. S. PARKS.

Witnesses:

GILEs H. WHITNEY, J. S. WATSON. 

